Thursday, April 23, 2015

Jeb Bush: NSA domestic spying is the "best part of the Obama administration."

Jeb Bush continues to defend the National Security Agency's
unconstitutional domestic spying program, telling a conservative talk
show host that this gross encroachment on the Fourth Amendment is the
"best part of the Obama administration."
There's absolutely no evidence that the National Security Agency's
domestic spying program has prevented a terrorist attack in the United
States. This is a conclusion reached by the New America Foundation and the White House Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
could "not identif[y] a single instance involving a threat to the
United States in which the program made a concrete difference in the
outcome of a counterterrorism investigation."
Bush, however, hails the massive expansion of the NSA and its
domestic spying program. "I would say the best part of the Obama
administration has been his continuance of the protections of the
homeland using the big metadata programs, the NSA being enhanced," the former Florida governor told Michael Medved on Tuesday.